Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-04-11
EQUINE GOSSIP.
Turfman who Thinks Volante the Peer
of Any Horse.

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of Any Horse.
New York, April 10TH" Black and
| Blue" the well known turf writer in the
| Mail and Express, says: My suggestion
that race might be arranged between Vo-
| lante, The Bard, Elwood, Jim Gray, Blue
| Wing, Ben Ali, and other equine cham
pions, has net the eye OF Lucky Baldwin,
! The Pacific coast millionaire. He says he
| is willing to enter Volante in such race,
but objects to any distance over mile and
a half He does not think that Volante
| likes two-mile ,e think the merits OF
the horses would be well brought out in
race at a mile and a quarter, and that dis
| tance, happen to know, suits Volante and
Ben Ali l think The Bard better than they
are in longer route. 1t is true the great
est race Volante ever ran, and for that mat
| ter one of the best ever decided in this
| country, was a mile and a half with Miss
| Woodford, but fancy that in race at
mile and quarter Volante would show to
q greater advantage. He is what may be
! termed windsucker.' and that of course
| initiates against him the further he goes.
| He has habit of sucking wind on the way
| from the stable to the track, and on some
occasions this plays havoc with his staying
powers. When fit for race Volante is as
good as any race-horse in America. Tre-
|
excepted, and should such a race be ar
ranged before the horses go through an ar
duons campaign, should stand by Vo-
| lante to win"
MORE POINTS FOR TURFMEN.
| New YORK, April 10th.-The adherents
of the Rancho del Paso stable keep its Sc
cret with commendable faithfulness, but
| W whispssT come that the fleet-fooSed Guenn
| will be held in reserve for the Suburban.
| There is one fact however, that investors
| in coming racing events would do well to
bear in mind, and that is that neither
| Haggin nor any owner knows as yet what
horses he will start in the coming races.
| Guenn arrived here in fair shape, and so
| did Prodigal, a brown colt that may prove
dangerous in the Withers.
An inspection of the entries for the sea-
son of 1887 reveals the fact that more two
year-olds will appear than ever before, bya
large majority Haggin has nominated
sixty-odd colts and flies, mainly for the
races at Gravesend, Jerome Park, Sleeps
head Bay, Monmouth Park and Saratoga.
Besides the above, he has forty-six highly
bred two-year-olds not engaged for this
year, but nominated for events to be run
! in 1883.
The Dwyer, Fairfax, Belmont, Cassatts,
Sam Browns, w. L. Scotts, Appleby &
Johnson's, Melbourne, p. Lorillard, Jr.s,
| Corrigan & Campbelrs, Young's, Baldwins,
| Winters, Todhunters', Madison, and
score OF other stables are unusually strong
in two-year-olds.
As usual of late years, rumor points to
the Brooklyn stable as The school from
which phenomenal youngsters will gradu-
ate.
The rapidity with which Harry Wilkes
came to his speed for his trot against time
in California has created new interest in
trotting. The fact that Harry won and
made the fourth quarter in 324 seconds
showed that, if his longer striding rival,
Oliver K, had not met with his mishap,
| the proposed trot for the supremacy would
have been worth going to the Golden
| Gate to see, and would have enriched
the hackers of the lightning-gaited repre-
sentative of the Wilkes family of trotters.
| Henry Sire says: Il will match Harry
Wilkes against any trotting horse, mare or
gelding, mile heats, best three in five, in
harness, for from $1,000 to $4,000"